Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Female Law Faculty, Students Across the Country Are Getting Unsettling Texts Ryan Quinn Tue, 09/17/2024 - 03:00 AM Since the start of the year, women law professors, deans and students have received messages on their personal cellphones saying things like, “Law school isn’t fair for us men.” Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes leadership and mentorship in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. Johnson Johnson is law school dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Alexander has always been interested in the realms of law, politics, and democracy. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at Villanova University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school. He would go into the Air Force, followed by college, law school and then run for political office. He never made it to the Air Force or law school, but he made his political dreams come true. The rest is history.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Kline has committed $50 million for “transformational support” of Duquesne University’s 111-year-old law school, which will now bear his name, the university announced Wednesday.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

As law schools across the nation grapple with the tidal wave of recent anti-DEI laws, the foundation of inclusion and equity in legal education is being profoundly challenged, forcing law schools to rethink their approaches to fostering a wide net of representation. Despite these concerns, there is a silver lining.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

However, first-generation students and graduates of less selective law schools still struggle to break in, according to a new study. The legal professoriate is becoming more racially, ethnically and gender diverse, but new data shows that first-generation college graduates remain underrepresented among law faculty ranks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Born in 1942, he was an aspirational child who had his life planned out long before high school. He would go into the Air Force, followed by college, law school and then run for political office. He never made it to the Air Force or law school, but he made his political dreams come true. The rest is history.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

News" is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. News is devaluing faculty expertise at the worst possible time. By Brian Soucek Derek Brahney for The Chronicle U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The law schools of the University of Chicago and Cornell University may not love the U.S. The ranking is not our guide, and I prefer to shine a light on the substantive attributes that make our Law School the home of the most intellectually ambitious faculty and the most powerful legal education. News ranking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

Tracking law school deans across the U.S., The resource was created in 2007 by Jim Rosenblatt, JD, professor of law and dean emeritus at the Mississippi College School of Law. It’s rare for a law school dean to stay in their role for 10 years or more, Rosenblatt says.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A group of professors at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School signed a statement protesting a decision by some student groups to adopt a bylaw not to host Zionist speakers. “We hereby endorse the principle of free and open speech at the law school,” the statement reads.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

Law schools are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their curricula, according to an AI and Legal Education Survey released by the American Bar Association and the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence. It suggests that AI has had an increasingly significant impact on legal education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Okediji has been appointed the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Okediji holds a Bachelor of Law degree from University of Jos in Nigeria as well as a master’s and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

An American Bar Association plan to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty has been received positively by legal writing and clinical professors. The American Bar Association has proposed changes to standards to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty. The proffer — offered initially in a Nov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Jessica Berg “The School of Law and overall university’s commitment to serving first-generation students, to social justice, and to academic and scholarly excellence all attracted me to this position,” she said. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

Edley spent more than two decades as a professor at Harvard Law School, where he and Orfield founded the Civil Rights Project in the aftermath of a 1996 court ruling that squelched race-conscious admission policies at many universities. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the UT practices. Orrick, Jr.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

Through the Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC), students at the University of Michigan (U-M) Law School provide critical services for local veterans and at the same time gain valuable, real-world experience in the civil court system. We really take on any kind of civil legal case for a veteran, especially one that might go to court.”

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. The word selective is important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Title: Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Tenured: Yes Age: 38 Education: B.A., Yale Law School Career mentors: Amna Akbar, The Ohio State University; Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School; and Devon Carbado, UCLA. political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

“I’m very elated that former North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson will be joining our team at NCCU and look forward to working with her and her team as we advance the mission of the law school by preparing a significant cadre of the nation’s future jurists,” said Dr. David H. Jackson, Jr.,

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

At a law school especially, students must learn that persuasion comes from improving your argument, not by yelling over your adversaries. UC Hastings, a public law school fully bound by the First Amendment, pledged to revise its policies to better protect student free speech rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Our law school is committed to contributing to efforts to uphold LGBTQI+ rights locally, regionally and nationally in collaboration with stakeholders and advocates,” said Osofsky. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and gender studies from Indiana University and a law degree from The University of Chicago Law School.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

(Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky) As part of a recently established partnership between Simmons College of Kentucky, a Louisville-based HBCU, and the University of Kentucky (UK), the institutions are creating a pre-law constitutional studies program at Simmons, which has not had a law school since the 1930s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

“Professor Ogletree was a once-in-a-century kind of law professor,” said Amos Jones, a Washington, D.C.-based based attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School. “He After Stanford, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1978. Professor of Law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

In 2018, Chua and her husband, fellow Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld, were investigated for allegedly telling students to dress like models for a better chance at winning a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh, now a U.S. When I first joined the [Yale Law] faculty, I would go to a faculty meeting that would be 90% white males.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Nyre’s departure stems from disagreements with some board of regents members over governance problems involving Seton Hall Law School, USA TODAY Network New Jersey reported. Late last year, Seton Hall announced that some trusted, long-time employees of the law school embezzled more than $975,000 over several years.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Joan Bullock in September sued the university’s board of regents in Houston federal court, claiming she was ousted in June without cause and stripped of her tenured faculty position afterward even though male deans in the past were allowed to remain on the faculty after their deanships ended. Read more on Reuters.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 10, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is pleased to announce the 109 institutions of higher education selected as recipients of the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award — including those in the community college and law school categories — and the 62 winners of the 2023 Health Professions HEED Award.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And let’s not forget that, in response to a faculty member’s free speech lawsuit , Yale disavowed its free speech promises, saying commitments like the one contained in its famous 1974 Woodward Report aren’t contractually binding. . And that’s a good thing, as secretly recording instructors can be used to censor or intimidate faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

James’ illustrious career as one of the highest-ranking attorneys in the country, while overseeing a substantial team of professionals will serve our university and law school well into the future.”

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. she helped broaden the school’s admission of diverse students, specifically those of first-generation standing. Rosenbury received her A.B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On my father’s side of the family, I’m a third-generation college graduate whose aunt was a law school professor. Building a teaching and college workforce — not just adjuncts and junior staff but full-time tenured faculty and senior institutional leaders — that looks like the students we serve can help us to live up to that goal.

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